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 Almost Everything You Need to Know About Your Packard Bell Computer

Your CD-Rom Device

Packard Bell has used many different CD-Rom devices in it's computer systems.  You will have to determine which CD-Rom device you have and then use the chart below to get more information from Packard Bell.

If you need more info on DOS drivers for your CDRom device, check out my selected CD-Rom DOS drivers list.



How to ID Your CD-Drive -
There are a number of ways to determine your cd-drive model, I hope one of these methods will work for you.
  1. If you are lucky the information will be printed right on your drive, however I think most of the drives have no makings what so ever.  All my CD-Rom Drive says is 4X fast 600 KBS transfer rate.
  2. Well another place to look is on your system credentials sheet.  This is a pre-printed piece of paper with all the specifications of your system printed on it.
  3. Next you can see if your system has the systems credentials program, if so run it and it should tell you your CD-Rom model.
  4. Right click on my computer and choose properties, next choose the device manager tab.  Click on the + sign where it says CDRom and if your system is configured properly it should give you the name of your CDRom device.
  5. If you find  a FCC ID number on your CDRom you can visit one of the many FCC ID number look up services and you should be able to ID your CDRom.


CD-Rom drives -
 
 NEC CD-ROM Menu
 Goldstar CD-ROM Menu
 Teac CD-ROM Menu
 Sony CD-ROM Menu
 Panasonic CD-ROM Menu
 Lion CD-ROM Menu
 Cyber CD-ROM Menu
 Mitsumi CD-ROM Menu
 Toshiba CD-ROM Menu
 BTC CD-ROM Drives
Lite-On CD-ROM Drives
 Lite-On LTN-222A 12x IDE CD-ROM
 LTN-G400 16X CD-ROM Drive
 LTN-262 16X CD-ROM Menu
 Liteon CD-ROM LTN-242 24X Menu
 Lite-On CD-ROM LTN-301 32X Menu
 Lite-On LTN382 40x CD-ROM Menu

Selected DOS Drivers list -
I have selected a list of the more popular CDRom devices to show you what the DOS drivers for a CD Ron are like.  If you need to use the CDRom is DOS you will need to edit a systems file in order to get it to work.

Windows 95 does not require these driver settings, however if you are playing games in DOS you may need to have CD-ROM access when in DOS.  The information below can also help you make a boot disk that requires CD-ROM access.

If your CDRom device is not listed, use the CD Rom chart above, Packard Bell should give you the info you need.


Panasonic CR-563
Interface Panasonic (Sound Blaster)
Line In CONFIG.SYS DEVICEHIGH=C:\FORTE16\DRIVERS\CDMKE.SYS /D:MSCD0001 /P:630
Line In AUTOEXEC.BAT LH C:\DOS\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD0001 /M:30 /E
Panasonic CR-572 (2x)
Interface ATAPI
Line In CONFIG.SYS DEVICEHIGH=C:\PBTOOLS\CR_ATAPI.SYS /D:MSCD0001
Line In AUTOEXEC.BAT LH C:\DOS\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD0001 /M:30
Panasonic CR-574 (4x)
Interface ATAPI
Line In CONFIG.SYS DEVICEHIGH=C:\PBTOOLS\CR_ATAPI.SYS /D:MSCD0001
Line In AUTOEXEC.BAT LH C:\DOS\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD0001 /M:30
Panasonic CR-581 (4x)
Interface ATAPI
Line In CONFIG.SYS DEVICEHIGH=C:\PBTOOLS\CR_ATAPI.SYS /D:MSCD0001
Line In AUTOEXEC.BAT LH C:\DOS\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD0001 /M:30
NEC CDR-271 (4x)
Interface ATAPI
Line In CONFIG.SYS DEVICEHIGH=C:\PBTOOLS\NEC_IDE.SYS /D:MSCD0001
Line In AUTOEXEC.BAT LH C:\DOS\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD0001 /M:30
NEC CDR-273 (4x)
Interface ATAPI
Line In CONFIG.SYS DEVICEHIGH=C:\PBTOOLS\NEC_IDE.SYS /D:MSCD0001
Line In AUTOEXEC.BAT LH C:\DOS\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD0001 /M:30
NEC 1300 6x CD-ROM
Interface ATAPI
Line In CONFIG.SYS DEVICEHIGH=C:\PBTOOLS\NEC_IDE.SYS /D:MSCD0001
Line In AUTOEXEC.BAT LH C:\DOS\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD0001 /M:30
Goldstar 8x CD-ROM
Interface ATAPI
Line In CONFIG.SYS DEVICEHIGH=C:\PBTOOLS\GSCDROM.SYS /D:MSCD0001
Line In AUTOEXEC.BAT LH C:\DOS\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD0001 /M:30

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